Fwd: Strengthening faith and soccer skills

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From: Bruce Campbell-Janz, MCC East Coast <EastCoast@mcc.org>
Date: Mon, Mar 5, 2018 at 9:00 AM
Subject: Strengthening faith and soccer skills
To: "info@gehmanmennonitechurch.org" <info@gehmanmennonitechurch.org>

Strengthening faith and soccer skills No Images? Click here       Donate     Strengthening faith and soccer skills When Sigifredo Godoy talks about living out his faith, he's talking sweat and strategy – the commitment, knowledge and skills that shaped him as a professional soccer player. That's what he's now passing on to young men from some of the most violent areas of his home city, Cali, Colombia. Read more about Godoy's soccer school and how it's impacting the young men who attend.   The hands and feet of Christ Rolando Flores, Puerto Rico program coordinator for MCC's East Coast region, states, "We have a saying that goes, 'Hope is the last thing we lose.'" Thanks to the thousands of people who volunteer with MCC meat canning every year, people in Puerto Rico will continue to hope. Find out how MCC is responding to Hurricane Maria with canned meat in Puerto Rico.   The way of the open palm   Thien Phuoc Quang Tran is serving in MCC's United Nations office through the International Volunteer Exchange Program and Mennonite World Conference. Read his reflections on a Vietnamese philosophy and how it ties in with his experience working at the UN.     Events March 5-9: Meat Canning (Chambersburg, PA) March 9: Buckets of Hope: a Celebration of Service (Chambersburg, PA) March 12-16: Meat Canning (Kirkwood, PA) March 16: Heifer Sale of the PA Relief Sale (Belleville, PA) March 17: Healing Communities Training for Clergy and Congregations (Lebanon, PA) March 21-23: Meat Canning (New Holland, PA) March 21: Heifer Sale of the PA Relief Sale (New Holland, PA) March 26-28: Meat Canning (Myerstown, PA) April 2-4: Meat Canning (Souderton, PA) April 6-7: Pennsylvania Relief Sale (Harrisburg, PA)       Find local events       Job openings MCC representative, Honduras Seed service worker, Nicaragua Advisor for planning, monitoring, evaluation and partner capacity building, Haiti Seed service worker, Honduras     More openings     Get involved: prisoner care kits On Martin Luther King, Jr. day, over 250 Philadelphia-area supporters stepped forward to show their thirst for peace and justice in a place that often seems devoid of hope—U.S. prisons. Read more about how this group packed over 560 prisoner care kits and find out how you can get involved in packing kits.       We Will Speak Out MCC is offering three webinars this spring for church leaders who want to learn more about how to address sexualized violence within the congregation and how to encourage healthy sexuality and healthy masculinity among members. The webinars will be led by church leaders and others with expertise in the topics. Check out the details here.          Pray for peace in North Korea Please join us in praying for peace in Northeast Asia, where disunity and injustice combine with threats of nuclear war.  Watch this video and other peace prayer videos here.      Donate         MCC East Coast 900 East Howell Street, Philadelphia, PA 19149 Clicking unsubscribe will remove you from the In Touch newsletter mailing list. Send us a note at intouch@mcccanada.ca or reply to this email if you'd like to be removed from all MCC emails.    Like    Tweet    Forward  Preferences  |  Unsubscribe